Buffy the Vampire Slayer was created by Joss Whedon for the purpose of subverting sexist conventions in the horror genre. Joss describes himself as a feminist, and he promotes feminism through the characters and storylines of Buffy. But while characters may behave in a feminist way, I got to thinking about how feminism itself is depicted in the Buffyverse – it exists as a movement there as it does here, after all. So, here’s a study of how feminism as a movement is portrayed in the Buffyverse.

First of all, I think it’s a good idea to try to get a grip on what Joss’ views are specifically....

I am very sorry for the long delay for the 20-11, it has been an extremely difficult couple of months at uni, with big loads of coursework and exams so its taken me a while to get down to it.

As many of you know we created a forum page in which Fanpopper’s listed their top 20 Buffyverse characters. The results were tallied and the overall result was I have to admit different to what I imagined. I hope you enjoy the read, and please this is a collective of favourite characters not my own so no blaming me if your favourite character is not number 1.

I've been seeing something different about the two characters. Buffy a slayer who is off track with her slayage and Spike a vampire with a government chip in his head and fallen in love with Buffy.

SEASON 6

Buffy and Spike's relationship in this season was about understanding,compassion,denial,feelings developing so quickly and rape. Buffy who was brought back to life by her own friends being ripped out of "Heaven" crawling out her grave. Feeling very shacky,and disoritented from crawling a grave. Spike his character about having that bad boy act around Buffy, making her feel for him very sexual....